Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner was Lydia 's wedding to Tobias over , than Bob Lamb had approached him for his permission to pay court to Martha , with a view to eventual marriage . |
| 2 | Joshua Morris had not invited him to break bread in Clungunford , Clunbury , Clunton or Clun , but Ralph Grunte had booked him for his Warwickshire Tories ' annual dinner and dance . |
| 3 | Pieda , a powerful economic group , has attacked him for his crippling levy on whisky and says the excise tax policy on the famous tipple is ‘ against the national interest and discriminates against one of the UK 's top five exporters ’ . |
| 4 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 5 | Ronnie is just glad it 's all over , and aware that his past acting career had prepared him for his ordeal . |
| 6 | Pippin , the first of the line , had destined it for his first-born , the young Charlemagne in the 750s ; Charlemagne had assigned it in 790 to his son Charles , later labelled primogenitus and designated heir to the regnum Francorum ( though he predeceased his father in 811 ) . |
| 7 | He done it for his soldiers , to show them what they had to do . |
| 8 | Most of the Elizabethan and Jacobean amateurs who collected his music made copies of parts or all of it , and Byrd himself selected it for his first ( 1589 ) book of cantiones sacrae , along with pieces of the stature of ‘ Ne irascaris ’ , ‘ Tristitia et anxietas ’ , ‘ O quam gloriosum ’ and ‘ Vigilate ’ . |
| 9 | He was planning on a shave and a slow , hot bath ; he might even throw in some of that stuff that Wayne had bought him for his birthday , that came in a dubious-looking novelty bottle shaped like a tiger 's head . |
| 10 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 11 | And if the government had provided it for his use , why was it now prosecuting him for using it ? |
| 12 | Dimas had reportedly clashed with the Prime Minister 's wife , Marika Mitsotakis , who had publicly reprimanded him for his behaviour towards Greek industrialists accompanying the official party . |
| 13 | And I had not even asked him for his name ! |
| 14 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 15 | Lovell was a Bristol poet of minor talents whose rich Quaker family had disowned him for his marriage that year to a beautiful actress called Mary Fricker , one of five sisters already well known to Southey . |
| 16 | The woman had taunted him for his lack of passion and forthrightness and she had walked off with one of the young dockers . |
| 17 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 18 | ‘ Heathcliff has sent me for his son , and I ca n't go back without him , ’ he said . |
| 19 | His father who mended the broken wings of birds , his mother who had loved him for his gentleness ? |
| 20 | Baddam 's experience qualified him for his most ambitious known project — an abridgement of the Royal Society 's Philosophical Transactions . |